Vaughan
And you wish me to find out what has happened to them——?
Lincoln
[Eagerly.]
I want another man in Richmond, quick—whose identity will be unknown—a man who can win the confidence of Judah P. Benjamin, Davis' Secretary of State, who is preventing my interview with the Confederate President. Benjamin is the ablest and by far the most dangerous man in the South to-day. I know from this document on my desk——
[Touches Baker's Report.]
that he is in close touch with the Copperhead Societies of the North—if his keen mind is not actually directing them. You have their signs and passwords. It seems too good to be true! If you carry to Benjamin a special report of this planned uprising, you can gain his confidence, and persuade him to let my men see Davis. If you can only get through the lines and reach him before being arrested——!
Vaughan
I've a brother in General Lee's army—sir—for whom I've often been mistaken before the war——
Lincoln